Teaching minister Jeremy Johnson at Lutheran Church of Hope in West Des Moines, Iowa.

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Cathy Lynn Grossman

Heads turn when Robert "Bo" Wilinski, 22, turns up for a weekday Mass at St. Patrick Catholic Church in White Lake, Mich.

"I'm there with 15 people over the age of 70 and they are looking at me saying, 'You're becoming a priest, right?' It seems that every time a Catholic sees a faithful young person, they assume he's going into a religious vocation," he says.

Wilinski, an accountant in suburban Detroit, has no plans for the priesthood. But he goes to Mass every Sunday and often during the week because, he says, he needs God in his life. "There is no other way I could see myself living." ...